10:09 PM,
Feb. 22, 2014

A transport van sits in the emergency room entrance at CMMC in Jackson.

Written by

Brian Eason
beason@gannett.com

A for-profit hospital in south Jackson repeatedly transferred emergency patients it was paid by the state to treat, possibly violating state hospital regulations and federal law, a Clarion-Ledger investigation found.

The Clarion-Ledger obtained hospital transfer logs, patient charts and other documents leaked by whistle-blowers that depict a pattern of decisions at Central Mississippi Medical Center that may have put lives at risk.

Trauma victims were sent away at least 89 times in 2013, often with injuries that CMMC had the capacity to treat, according to hospital records. Some of ...